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Judging by this thread, surely a part of OpenAI’s business model is to release models with somewhat grey-area outlandish claims, then sit and wait for people to test it out paying top dollars for tokens.


They’re not charging anything for o1 right now - it’s running as a free beta.

EDIT: Actually I’m not sure I’m correct about that - I’ve seen screenshots that indicate the API model is being charged for here: https://twitter.com/deepaiwriter/status/1834460643228897512

The value OpenAI get here is that people effectively run a massively parallel brute force attack against the new models to figure out exactly what they can and can’t do.


> The value OpenAI get here is that people effectively run a massively parallel brute force attack against the new models to figure out exactly what they can and can’t do.

I'm pretty sure the value they get is the money you pay.


No, in this case it really is the usage. This is a brand new model and nobody knows how best to use it yet. OpenAI researchers have been tweeting as much (sadly I’ve lost the tweet).


I would guess most of the people tesing the model were already paying for plus so they aren't getting any additional revenue for these new tokens.




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